William Hurt portrays a scientist who pursues a man contaminated with a deadly man-made virus (Peter Weller). The authorities believe the man is a terrorist but in truth he's just a frustrated out of work employee who wants to see his family. Unfortunately, everyone he comes in contact with along the way dies in a matter of minutes. Hurt, who was alsocontaminated with the same virus years before (and is hence immune to it), is on a crusade to save the man.There's also a somewhat half-hearted love story, an over the top bad guy who deserves what he gets and a suprisingly mediocre story we've all seen in killer plague type movies before.